Cosplay fans gathered at a news conference in Tokyo on August 1, ahead of the World Cosplay Summit 2007.
The annual event is moving into its 5th anniversary; the summit will be held in the central Japanese city of Nagoya this weekend.
Cosplay, which originated in Japan, is a combination of the words “costume” and “play”. In cosplay, people dress mainly as characters from Japanese anime, as well as graphic manga novels and video games. [Reuters]